So,
as obvious as it is, I am a big fan of Linkin Park's music. They have
been around my radar ever since we had Cable TV. And I would go on MTV,
Channel V and Hitz FM just to watch music videos from various huge
artists around the 2000s. It was also the same era that I stumbled upon
the many awesome rock artists and bands which stood out from what I
called "Mediocre Rock" (or 2000's pop rock). The Strokes, Simple Plan,
White Stripes, Slipknot, Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Daft Punk,
Et Cetera (an expression but there is actually a Canadian band with that
name so that's pretty cool.) And holy hell, how could I forget Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance
[intentionally forgotten]. The first few songs and music videos from
them were "Numb" and "Points of Authority". But I only started becoming
their fan after Mike Shinoda's solo project Fort Minor and their
upcoming single "What I've Done" which came out in Transformers the
Movie. So the first album I ever owned was "Minutes to Midnight"--except
that it was not an original album.
Hybrid Theory!!...Where do I start? Like I said in the previous blog, this wasn't my first album that got me exposed to their music. But their singles "In The End", "One Step Closer", and "Papercut" was somehow available in our old iPod (yeah, we shared an iPod)--possibly downloaded at the same time we first got the music player.